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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Fall decor for the outdoors!

I hope you all had a lovely fall weekend!! We did -- it included just about all of my favorites of this season, which I'll tell you more about tomorrow. I am truly in fall nesting mode right now, and I love it!

Every year I have more and more fun decorating the outdoors of our home for the different holidays and seasons. The front door and porch is my favorite area, but this year, because we made our deck so livable, I threw a little out there too.

For now, just a simple collection of white and mini pumpkins, along with my 49 cent Ball jars, is plenty to add a touch of fall out back:

I'd like to do a couple more things out there, but for now it's lovely just as is. :)

For our front window boxes, I added some "faux" (sounds sooo much better thank fake, doesn't it?) pumpkins, as well as some real ones. The little ones last forever and always get me well into the Christmas season. (That would be 12:01 a.m., November 27th, in case you didn't know.):

The mums are looking just a tad bit droopy right now!

For the front porch, I have found a set up that works every year and I think I'm gonna stick to it. First, corn stalks for $5.99 each (you can find at most nurseries right now):

Next, some GORG mums...

Aren't they the most beautiful color you've ever seen?

Next, the tried and true front door container, which I showed you here:

And this is what you get:

Add a brand spankin' new flag, and some pumpkins, and you are set!

Our front porch is TEENY. I mean, teeny tiny itty bitty eetsy weensy. I dream of a gorgeous expanse of porch, but just because it's small doesn't mean it can't be beautiful my Squee-zays.

Stalks, mums and pumpkins, and your front porch will be the talk of the neighborhood (in a good way), even if it's teeny! Sigh. I love driving up to our house and seeing this...

Although it appears only a size two woman can walk through the middle, there really is plenty of room. And Halloween night, I move the planters and pumpkins so those precious goblins and ghouls can actually get up to our door, costumes and all. ;)

82 comments:

Love all the fall decor! I am so ready to break out the pumpkins, beautiful foliage and such...but, been super busy transforming our entertainment center in the family room! Going from white to a yummy chocolate/black...it will be gorg when done. If only the paint would dry quicker...sigh...

Your front porch is gorgeous! I've only been married for 1.5 year(s?) and last year we lived in a pretty crummy neighborhood, so no outdoor decorations for us. Now that we live in a better area, I'm all ready to decorate. This is some great inspiration. Thanks for sharing with us.

Love it Sarah!! I finally got our outside done this weekend too! Luckily we live near farms - hubby got my cornstalk for $1 because he cut them himself!! - can't beat that!! We tied them together and put 2 bunches on the porch too!

I'm working on pictures, hope to have next week - maybe I'll get that new wall pocket ready for my front door by then too!!

It looks fantastic! How do I dress up my porch for fall? Come take I look. Seriously. I'd LOVE it if you visited me Sarah! http://bethcrabtreehunter.blogspot.com/2009/10/welcome-to-my-humble-abode-come-on-in.html

I have been nervous busting out the (real) pumpkins yet, because the weather has been so warm...but this weekend it has turned and looks to be staying cool, so I am so excited that this week I can finally get to the front porch decor...thanks for sharing your porch! Mine is also small and I have been debating a few ideas, and yours really helped!

Those mums are gorgeous! Love how your front porch turned out! Love the pumpkins on all the steps. Would love to do that at my house, but now I have to decide if I want to spend that much $$ b/c I have a lot of steps. My landing is small like yours though.

Oh my goodness, Sarah. What a beautiful display. The mums are gorgeous. I had wanted to do a display in my windowboxes with pumpkins and squash. It's so hot here right now I don't know how well they would last. Last year I decorated for the grandkids who aren't here this year so I will probably go back to a more simple and elegant look like yours.Hugs...Tracy

I love your fall decor, can I ask where you got your 'welcome' sign on the door, was it from one of the online sites? I remember seeing on someone's blog a place that did custom ones and they had 'You're Home' printed for the door leading from their garage... that's what I'm after.

Beautiful outdoor decor. I love the simplicity of your white pumpkins and mason jars. My window boxes are sad indeed. If it would just stop raining long enough for me to get festive outdoors, all would be well.

Love your porch! So cute! I cracked up out loud about the size two woman going up the steps.Before I read that part,all I could think was,looks like you have to turn sideways to walk up the steps!! lol lol Natalie,

Hi Sarah, I just found your blog and I love your front porch...so warm and inviting! I'm a mum-aholic myself. Just joined you as a follower, come by for a visit when you can, I have a give-away going on!Debra

ugh. this is so gorgeous! i want to do something similar, we too have a tiny front porch. like just stairs and that's it. we shall see what i come up with as this is our first halloween in our first home! thanks for the inspiration.

The mini pumpkins in the window box are so cute! We don't have a good spot for a window box at my house :(My 2 wee ones are so proud of the little goblin I made for our front porch - fun and not scary at all! check it out!http://cupcakedaze.blogspot.com/2009/10/fun-easy-not-so-scary-ghost.html

I love, love, love your front porch! I've been reading your blog over the last week or so and have become so inspired to really get working around my house.

This weekend I started to revamp a OLD bench I have in my house. I tried painting it SEVERAL years ago and didn't like the way it turned out. I'm redoing it now for real. It's been repainted and now I am going to cushion the seat. I'll post pics when I'm done.

Perhaps I'll also have to do something with my front porch. Thanks so much for the inspiration!

Sarah, Your front porch is just GORGEOUS! Great ideas with the canning jars. You are very talented and I always enjoy your blog, although this is the first time I have commented. Have a great day! Linda

Sarah, your porch may be small, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in spirit! I love that you go all out on this space, and I think it looks terrific! So much better than if you just put a planter and a couple of tiny pumpkins. . . it would be so easy to say "That's really all I have room to do," but then you miss out on all this gorgeousness. Well done!

I have fun with my front porch for fall, too--come take a look at my "Autumn Inspiration" post if you have a chance. I have one jack-o-lantern that's probably nearly the same age as you (or the same age as you look in your photos, anyway).

I love what you've done on your front porch. We don't have a front porch...more like a small "stoop" area, and I haven't done anything with it yet. I do have a Fall garden flag for the flower bed, and I potted some white mums...need more though. I'll get my Fall arrangement for the front door down soon.

Well, my front door doesn't look half as great as yours, but I'm not quite as good at decorating as you are. But for what it's worth, here's my attempt at Fall decorating.http://tnstayinthecarmom.blogspot.com/2009/09/fabulous-fall.html

Hey girl! Thanks for your sweet visit. I just wanted to let you know that the red pathway pavers are made of recycled rubber tires from Lowes. They also come in other colors. They are definitely green and thrifty at a few bucks a piece! Yay!

Wow, it looks beautiful! I'm FINALLY getting around to decorating my porch for fall so I started poking around for inspiration pics It finally occurred to me that I should do a Roundup f beautiful fall decor and I'll be including a link to you if you don't mind.